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Available
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Publication
San Francisco : Harper, 1991.
Description
This work is an application to the whole of the Bible of Rene Girard's revolutionary theory of the origins and nature of violence.
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LibraryThing member TonyMilner
I found this a fascinating book in many ways but I felt somewhat unconvinced by its treatment of the Old Testament. While I am happy with the idea of a struggle of voices in the OT, Williams, I think, sometimes tries too hard to make the texts fit the theory that there is a 'revelation of the
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inocent victim' going on. I was also a bit dissapointed to see no treatment of Holy War as that is a major part of the 'sanctioned violence' of the OT Show Less